Paul Cézanne, 1890 - The Card Players - fine art print

What does the original description of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art state about this 19th century artwork created by Paul Cézanne? (© - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Cézanne was in his fifties when he undertook a painting campaign devoted to giving memorable form to a subject that inspired the likes of Caravaggio and Chardin. He was determined from the start—as we see in this sturdy Provençal scene—to make it his own. Cézanne carefully crafted this composition from figure studies he had made of local farmhands. Once he had puzzled-out his conception, he continued to fine-tune the poses and positions of the card players, until they—like the four pipes hanging on the wall behind them—each fell perfectly into place. Cézanne channeled the quiet authority he achieved here into a much larger variant (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia) and punctuated the series with three works in which he pared away extraneous details to focus his gaze on a pair of players.

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In 1890 the male French painter Paul Cézanne created the piece of art. The original measures the size: 25 3/4 x 32 1/4 in (65,4 x 81,9 cm) and was painted with the technique oil on canvas. This artwork is included in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960 (license: public domain). The creditline of the artpiece is the following: Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960. The alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format and has a side ratio of 1.2 : 1, which implies that the length is 20% longer than the width. The painter Paul Cézanne was an artist from France, whose style can be classified as Impressionism. The Impressionist artist was born in the year 1839 and passed away at the age of 67 in 1906 in Aix-en-Provence.

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